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The Invisible Man (1933)
8/10
A scientist goes mad, and invisible, through ingestion of a potion he created, in this pseudo dark comedy.
Claude Rains, as the Invisible Man, gives a tour de force performance within the restraints of being either covered head-to-foot in bandages or being invisible, with the use of his menacing voice and body gestures. The special effects are (still, circa 1933) very effective and convincing.
The standout oddity of the film is there's goofy humor throughout from the mad scientist, mostly whimsical merriment with matching music, all the while he's tipping over baby carriages and killing hundreds of people one-on-one or running trains off cliffs.
Invisible Man carries some sci-fi depth from the H. G. Wells novel, mostly in the form of what 'logical evil' the Mad Dr. plans to do with his new discovery. However, I don't know that we learn anything about the characters, none of which change, and the ending is rather anticlimactic in the sense of it being cliche (I suspect) even for 1933.
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